“Restraint is not a defeat , but rather to an understanding of a situation that puts you at level maturity” — kidicoyches Copy Share Image
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame. — Billy Casper Copy Share Image
“He did not expect reasonable conduct from human beings; most people were candidates for protective restraint. He simply wished they would leave… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace. — Chinmayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I’m barely holding onto my restraint right now, so if you want our first time together to have anything like romance to… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Rest shows us who God is. He has restraint. Restraint is refraining from doing everything that one has the power to do.… — Matthew Sleeth Copy Share Image
We have to return to a foreign policy of restraint, one that develops our capabilities and our potential in communities across America,… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
As long as we observe love for others and respect for their rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“When worldly people come into a set discipine (niyam), they are known as yamdhari (one who upholds self restraint). From the moment… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
... I gave as an offering my all to Him Who had won me and saved me, my property, my fame, my… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters. — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire? — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything… — Lyn Ducoty Copy Share Image
The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues -… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
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